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The Walking Dead

LONG-AWAITED SCORE SOUNDTRACK FROM TV’S #1 SERIES THE WALKING DEAD TO BE RELEASED BY LAKESHORE RECORDS AND SPARKS & SHADOWS

The First Soundtrack Featuring Original Television Series Score Composed By Bear McCreary

“The apocalypse has a theme song in Bear McCreary's haunting score for hit show The Walking Dead' – CNN.com

(October 6, 2017- Los Angeles, CA) - Lakeshore Records and Sparks & Shadows are proud to release the first soundtrack featuring EMMY® award-winning composer Bear McCreary’s (10 Cloverfield Lane, Rebel in the Rye) original score for AMC’s The Walking Dead. The soundtrack will be released digitally and CD on October 20th, on LP October 27, 2017, and is available for pre-order at (http://smarturl.it/TWDscore).

For this long-awaited release, McCreary selected both his personal favorites from the first seven seasons, along with those most frequently requested by fans. He said, “narrowing down the highlights from seven years of work was a tremendous challenge.”

Premiering on Halloween 2010, in 120 countries simultaneously, The Walking Dead became a cultural zeitgeist practically overnight. A deserted car wreck. A policeman walking through it. The back of a little girl. He calls to her. At first she doesn’t respond. Then she turns around… revealing that all is not quite what it seems. The cop left with no choice shoots her, and as she falls, the tremolo string arpeggios of the “Main Title Theme” by McCreary crescendo, drawing millions of viewers into this harrowing world of The Walking Dead.

“When we started discussing the first season we agreed that drama, action, and horror would be felt more intimately if the score were used only in pivotal scenes, and that it should be written with tonal clarity,” McCreary explained of his initial approach to scoring The Walking Dead. During the zombie apocalypse, silence would be the most prevalent – the lack of sound is what survivors would notice. Those moments when McCreary’s music kicks in, viewers know they are about to be treated to something important. “This approach allowed me to create big emotional impacts with sparse musical gestures.”

As the series progressed, McCreary was able to expand the musical palette. For the second and third seasons he did so with “acoustic guitars and drums to connect with the farmhouse setting (check out ‘Message to Morgan’).” He blended these with a small orchestra for the gut-crushing mid-season finale (‘Sophia'). As audiences were introduced to new characters like the Governor, McCreary incorporated a synth pulse to his largely organic instrumentation. When Neegan was introduced a few seasons later, he employed “creepy electric guitar gestures.”

EMMY®-winning composer McCreary is one of the most sought-after talents in the industry today. In 2017, he had an impressive showing at Sundance with three films at the festival: Danny Strong’s drama Rebel in the Rye, the sci-fi thriller Colossal starring Anne Hathaway, and Jennifer Brea’s documentary Unrest.

Some of McCreary’s other film credits include the critically-acclaimed Paramount Pictures and Bad Robot film, produced by J.J. Abrams, 10 Cloverfield Lane, Universal/Blumhouse’s upcoming thriller Happy Death Day, the animated feature Animal Crackers, and Disney’s Step Up 3D. His videogame credits include Sony PlayStation’s highly anticipated new God of War.

McCreary burst onto the scene scoring the influential and revered series Battlestar Galactica. His music for the series was lauded by Variety as “innovative,” and “like no other” by NPR. McCreary won an EMMY® Award for Outstanding Main Title Theme for Da Vinci’s Demons. McCreary also received EMMY® nominations for his work on Black Sails, Outlander, and Human Target. He has twice been awarded “ASCAP Composer of the Year – Television” by his peers. He currently scores Outlander, AMC’s record-shattering global phenomenon The Walking Dead, as well as Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. McCreary frequently performs in concert throughout North America and Europe, including the Getty Center, the Hagen Philharmonic and Ballet in Germany, the Television Academy, and the Golden State Pops Orchestra. In July 2014, Maestro Gustavo Dudamel conducted a suite of McCreary’s music with the L.A. Philharmonic and L.A. Master Chorale at the Hollywood Bowl.

With all of his professional appearances and outreach to fans, on his blog or through social media, it is The Walking Dead that McCreary is asked about the most. “I am thrilled there is finally a way for fans of this global phenomenon to experience my music in an album format,” he said. “Most of all, I am excited because my experience on The Walking Dead continues. As of this writing, I am gearing up to dive into our eighth season, I look forward to many more years of musical exploration!”

The eighth season of The Walking Dead premieres Sunday, October 22 at 9PM ET on AMC. Lakeshore Records and Sparks & Shadows will release AMC’s The Walking Dead - Original Television Soundtrack digitally and CD on October 20th, on LP October 27, 2017, and is available for pre-order at (http://smarturl.it/TWDscore).